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PROBE THE PENITENTIARY
A SEARCHING and impartial investi
f Ration at the Kastcin Penitentiary
is Ucccssaiy in ju tic to the administia
tion of thpt insttu'ion and to the
inmates.
.lust what such a probe would levcal
it is not easy to .say. I!ut it is pretty
safe to assume that it would hurry the
removal of the tate' prison from tho
city to the great isolated track already
marked out at Bellefonte for the estab
lishment of a modem penal institution, in
which the Eastern and Western peniten
tiaries arc some day to be merged. There
nro better uses for the site on Fairmount
avenue.
Governor Spi'oul should provide for a
thorougli airiinf ef the "pen." And lie
should n"t delay any longs'.
BROAD STREET MOTORBUSSES
rpHERE can be little doubt that weU-
managed autobus linens on Broad
street and on the Parkway would help to
solve some aspects of the transporta
tion problem. In petitioning the Public
Service Commission to grant a certificate
of public 'convenience to his proposal,
Itussell Thacr speaks for an old idea,
but a good one, none the lets. Anything
that will leliove even a small pait of
the congestion of north and south traffic
in this city is to be welcomed.
If the argument that Bread street is
nlrcady overcrowded is advanced, there
is always the example of Fifth avenue,
whetc a bus line is successfully oper
ated among even more adverse conditions.
Moreover, there should be some way of
riding to destinations on Broad street
without being compelled trf walk a block
"either from the east or the west.
Few objections in principle can be
offered to the Parkway line. The Fair
mount entrance is rather mcagerly served
by trolleys and all the routes are indi
rect. On the wide thoroughfare, which
despite much traffic is not yet really
jammed, the trip from the center of town
to the great municipal lecrcation area
could be made by motorbus in from five
to ten minutes.
The character of the fiancliisc which
the inlcrosls represented by Mr. Thayer
desire cannot be so readily appraised.
Philadelphia has had bitter experience
with tho financial aspects and obliga
tions of transit affairs. No chniler
should be granted without expert exam
ination of the manifold possibilities
involved.
The general idea of motorbus relief is
excellent. It now devolves upon both
the promoters and the city to devise some j
relationship which will be financially
sound and practically helpful.
Much as we need this trackless tran
sit, it is best' to go slow in the matter
nd do it right, if it is to bo done at all.
MUSEUM, NOT MAUSOLEUM
fpHE somewhat prevalent impiession
that museums arc chiefly graveyards
of erudition is untenable in the case of
t)ic popular institution maintained by the
University of Pennsylvania across the
way from Franklin Field.
More persons attended the University
Museum within the last year than at any
similar period in its history. Its budget
is stimulating and cheerful. There is no
debt. During the twelve months, addi
tional collections valued. at more than
$150,000 havo been housed in the pic-tu-usque
structure. Rare Egyptian treas
ures, gathered by the Eckloy B. Coxe,
Jr., expedition, are now aw.-iiting ship
ment at Cairo. All this is an admirable
record of achievement. A
A picture gallery which few enter.Ti
mausoleum of learning where the foot
falls of strangers are seldom heard, can
be maintained in any community by the
mere whim of a millionaire. And so,
although the contributions to the Uni
versity's institution are needful and have
been generous, the real index of its vital
ity is its appeal to tho ordinary citizen.
The more the University Museum,
n Memorial Hall and similar1 enterprises
in the city are attended, the more re
assurance is given that our culture is
.being implanted on a solid basis.
THE KNOX MANEUVER
TF THE league covenant is detached
from the peace treaty, there will bo
no trusteeship for the Sarre basin and
tho machinery for fixing the boundaries
of that region will break down. Thcro
will bo nor protection for the fre5 city of
Danzig. The status of the former Ger
man colonies .will be wholly unsettled,
for without the league there can bo no
mandatory system, There will be no
safeguards for racial minorities in coun
tries of mixed ethnography. It was,
moreover, impossible to decree certain
frontiers without the solvent of the
leairue.
fe structure of the treatv wos com
prmi, but Us basts was the 'league
kC (TOwpt; eoBypewtoe all, jtw
nre iilciillstle reasons why the lcaRito was
planned, but llic practical nrjrument was
by fur tho chief ono in Its favor. It Is
the cnforccnient agent of the treaty. It
la the formula upon wlilch primal accord
was necessary befoio any progress could
be niado upon the treaty.
Senator Knox proposes to divorce tho
covennnt from tho pact with Germany.
Should this bo accomplished tho treaty
would be just as effectually wrecked as
though Senator Boinh should put through
his policy of disowning en bloc every
thing which was accomplished in Paris.
Tho tieaty without tho league will bo
lilir the ingredients of dinner without
a cook.
Only two interpretations of the Knox
maneuver nre possible. It is cither
deliberately mischievous or unconsciously
nunnrnsiral. '
DID DR. GONWELL SEE
tup rMH'AT HP WIS WIPP?
The Answer Depends Mot on Belief In
Immortality, but In the Possibility of
Communications From the Dead
MORE persons nie interested today in
the possibility of communication be
tween the dead and the living than at
nny ether period since men began to
think nbout the matter. The question
whicli is troubling them is not whether
tho soul is immortal and lives after
death. All Christendom believes in the
immortality of the soul. It is one of
tho articles of tho faith of the Moham
medans. TV o'"0'itnl religions preach it.
The Groplw and tlin Romans had faith
in it. When tlie American India 1 d'cl
h's sou! wont It the happy hunting
grounds and his friends buried with him
his hunting weapons in order that they
might be at hand when the roul needed
them.
The Rev. Dr. Russell II. Conweli, pas
tor of the Baptist Temple, who, of course,
believes in iufmortality, has had a vision
of his dead wife, repeated every morning
at daybreak for a week, an explanation of
the nature of which lie is seeking froii
Sir Oliver Lodge and other men whA
have devoted themselves to the study ef
psychic phenomena. The woman, Doctor
Comvrll says, Eat on the edge of his bed
and talked with him about matters they
were both interested in while she wa3
living. He was ill at the time and he
thought that the vision was due to some
mental aberration or that it was a dream.
but when he proposed to test the reality
of the appcaiance, by asking the ghost
if sho could tell him where his army
discharge papers were that ho Had not
been able to find for twenty-five years
she consented and directed him to tho
place where the papers were. That day
lie had his maid hide his fountain pen
and the next morning when the vision
appeared at his bedside he asked whcie
the pen was and was immediately di
lected to its hiding place. Since then
he has had no further visits.
Doctor Copwell says that his mind i.s
open on the subject. He also says that
he believes the dead levisit the living
and communicate with them, but that he
docs not believe that we can summon
them back.
Whether tha dead are summoned back
or not, there are thousands of persons
who bel'eve that they actually communi
cate with the living. A scoie or njore
books have appeared within the past year
or two purporting to contain long mes
sages from .gpldicrs killed in battle and
from famous men of the past. These
messages aie delivered in various ways.
They como through automatic writing or,
verbally, thiough a medium; and now
and then there have been reports that
tho dead havo appeared in bodily form
and talked directly to the living. Most
of tho messages, however, contain com
plaint that although the communicating
spirit is in the room he cannot make
his friends awaie of his picsence.
A most curious and interesting body
of literature is grooving up dealing with
the nature of the life after death as re
pealed in this way. We have been told
that the aged return to their condition
when they weiu in their prime, that the .
blind hae two eyes and that a new leg
grows for those who have been maimed
in life; that there are houses and gardens
and flowers and trees and dogs and horses
in the other world; that there is tobaco
there for the solace of those who used
it in life; that the tatteied uniform of
the soldier killed on the battlefield is
restored to its original freshness; that
bodies of French and German troops,
killed in the shock of battle, continued
'the attack after death until they dis
covered that tfiey were no longer alive
and that then they began to fraternize;
that the dead have lemained on the bat
tlefield and deflected shells from their
course in order to save tho lives of those
whoso time to die had not yet come;
that there arc lovers there as well as
here and that there is a sort of a spiritual
marriage. But it would take pages of
this newspaper to go into all tho details
contained in the reports of communica
tion with the other world.
Three current theories are used to
explain these things. One is that those
receiving tho messages are the victims of
hallucinations, another is that they are
due to telepathy when a third party
serves as tho communicating medium,
and the third is that they are veritable
messages from the dead. AVe do not in
clude the theory of deliberate fraud, for,
cruel and hateful as that i.s when prac
ticed to deceive men and women mourn
ing for their dead, the reports of mes
sages from the other -world which havo
been published in recent years bear all
tho marks of good faith. If there is
deception, it is self-deception.
The number of men and women believ
ing in the authenticity of the messages
is increasing. The investigations of the
London Society for Psychical Research
have been conducted by men with the
scientific mind who set out to collate tho
evidence of life after death afforded by
communication with the living. Prrfes
sor Hyslop, formerly of Columbiu Uni
versity, is so confident that ample proof
has been found that he will not admit
that there is any possible doubt of it.
Professor Crawford, of Belfast, who be
lieves in the pomnmnications, has con
fessed that tho continuance of a oon-
gclou' yHonal lifiO after death tins not
E JtiiYUN'U PUBLIC LEDGEH
ot been proved with tho certainty of a
mathematical demonstration. Ho pro
fesses to have discovered that in pro
ducing materialization!! there passes
fiom the body of tho medium a corporeal
substance which tho French investigators
havo named ectoplasm, and that this
substance can bo touched and felt, but
that it cannot stand the light.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has been
converted from n belief in annihilation
to faith in tha future life thiough his
investigations into spiritualism, will not
admit that there is nny possibility of
doubt of tlie reality of the messages de
livered, lie insists that tho resurrection
of Jesus was not. tho resurrection of a
material body, but the manifestation to
his disciples of ti spiritual body similar
to that which appears in the M)-callcd
matorialiy.ations of the spiritualistic sc-
awe. I lie Itev. Dr. Samuel McComb, of
; Boston, an Episcopalian clergyman, is
I inclined to agree with Sir Arthur. lie 1
! lias quoted Paul's description of the ap
pearance of Jesus in suppoit of the
theory. iJasil King, who was once a
clergyman, is confident that he has re
ceived messages from a personality 'cn
tiicly diffeicnt from that of tho medium
through whom they were delivered. This
fer-.onality purports to be that of a dis
tinguished Ficnch chemist whose name is
widely known.
And there the matter rests today. A
large and increasing number of persons
believe that the immortality of the soul
has been pioved beyond the shadow of
.1 doubt, not through the assertions of
sacred writing, but' thiough the actual
delivery of messages from the dead to
the living. A still lai-ger number of
persons insist that these mes.-ages can
be explained in another way without re
course to. the supernatural; they believe
in immortality and would like to have
it proved as a mathematical theorem is
demonstrated, but they do not think that
that proof has yet been supplied. And
there are others who scoff at the whole
subject and will have nothing to do with
it. There aie still others with an open
mind leady to join with Sir Althur
Conan Doyle in accepting the proof when
it .seems convincing to them. Doctor
Conweli evidently belongs to the last
group. He has had an experience which
he will not admit can be explained on
tho theory of hallucination. He is await
ing a moie satisfactory explanation.
HALF-WAY METHODS
"So spttli'iiicnt cull Ik- liad in tlii- mut
ter unless the finding-, of this
body Kimiil at everj point tin
public inleu'xl." I'icshleiil Wilson's
Irllir fn tin mriiihrii of Ihr t.unl iliihr
luiiimiisioii.
TTENRY .M. ROBINSON, who i.s the
--- solitary lcpresentativc of the public
interest in the commission of three, whicli
will have two votes against his one in
every emergency, must have read that
passage in Mr. Wilson's letter with min
gled feelings.
To sruard at every point the public in
tciest is a-laige task for ono man under
any circumstances. To guard at every
point the public interest in a contest of
mind and will with angry, union men and
angrier coal pioduceis in conferences
called to settle finally the biggest, the
most complicated, and the most painful
industria 1 controversy in our history
would require superhuman wisdom and
superhuman strength.
It is true that decisions of the coal com
mission will bo considcied binding only'
when they are unanimous. But we know
how unanimity of opinion is brought
about in juries. There is a point at
which the mo.st determined human re
sistance breaks down in sheer exhaustion.
The soft-coal operators aiun.be miners'
unions, worlds apart as they are most of
the time, arc united in ono aim. They
want more. They do not particularly
care where that more comes from. They
are experts in controversy, past masters
in the theory of price and wage scales.
A reading of the statement just issued
by the operators themselves as a supple
ment to the President's letter makes it
clear that though they have compromised
they are by no means convinced that
their rights have been respected.
The miners are no less resolute in the
appaient intention to get the most out
of a crisis that is not yet passed.
Between these two powerful groups
and the public is Mr. Robinson. He is
solitary and alone. We can only wish
him well and hope for the best.
The public has most at stake in this
instance. Why it should not have major
representation on the commission it is
hard to say.
When ft was announced from Wash-,
ington that the coal strike had been ad
justed and that production would be re
sumed while a commission studied the
industry it was supposed that the truth
about wages, prices, living conditions,
pooling agreements, methods of distribu
tion and tho like would be fully revealed
for tho intelligent scrutiny of the people
who pay the bills.
A commission capable of that sort of
intensive survey would have to have
mote than three members. It would have
to include transportation men, railway
men, engineers all of them impartial. It
would have to be organized, as the Roose
velt commission was organized, "with a
majority opinion representative of the
human and social factors in the case.
As it is the coal miners and tho oper
ators are again to bo permitted to settlo
their affairs in tho dark. The public will
be in tho attitude of a helpless spectator.
Whatever additional millions the public
has to pay in tho future will bo the prico
of the government's failure to go below
tho surface of the coal question and to
insist upon more efficient working, rela
tionships and a better general order of
mining and distribution.
There id possibility that tho tunnel
borers iu tho 1'astern Penitentiary worked
less in the expectation of getting away than
in joy of having some employment for their
thoughts and hands.
Ou tho principle thitt all bores should
be segregated the Bills Island Soviet was
permitted to do its boring from within.
Government control of sugar will prob
ably continue through 1020, it is nnnounced,
Pocfcclboolf: lack on control of sugoj will also
eatlss yr"Uuably. ?
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MARSHALL A MARTINET
Former Speaker of the House at Har
rlsburg Could Bump His Friends
If Necessary s
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Uy GICOKGH NOX McOAIN
'ILMAM 1 MARSHALL, cx-sneaker
W.
of the House nt IlnriNburft at the ses
sion of 11)01, formerly of Allcullcny, has for
sniiie ypfirs pnst been it resident otihis city.
Members of tho House at that pcsslon will
j irnll liim ns one of the most strenuous offi
cials tlint ever occupied the speaker's chair,
lie ruled with the mailed list, did William T.
The stormiest time in the House I recall
wns one nij;Iit toward the cud of that
session. The Pittsburgh "ripper" bill was
up. Fnctionat fcelinj ran Iiifdi nmnng the
AlleRlienlnns, for it was a big lol'al Issue.
(ieorpe M. Uosnelt, n young, able and
pugnacious Pittsburgh member, wan fight
lug for the measure. lIoaek nnd Marshall
were good friends personally, but were on
opposite slides on the "ripper." Ilosnck
was determined to speak Ids fill and tho
speaker was just ns determined he should
not: so the latter declined to recognize him
on the floor.
Representative Honek's indignation at
length burst bounds. In a high-keyed voice
that made thev five-ton chandeliers quiver
lie bawled for recognition. Between times
he denounced die speaker, refusing to recog
nize the order "the gentleman from Allc
ghen.v will lesume his seat."
Then the mate, the s.wnbul of authority
before which the most obsticperons usually
(limited, was ostentatiously paraded down
the aisle to the belligerent's sent. It wns
like n spur to u runuwn.v. Ilosnck only
'hunted the louder.
finally, with a smash of the gavel, Mar
shall i lied :
"The sergeant -at -arms will sex' Hint the
gentleman takes his seat."
In nbout thirty seconds there wns a tangle
nf men and waving, nrms in Ilosack's viciu
itj. The House was in an uproar. Members
stood in their seats nnd cheered. There
wns n sudden jar that was heard for ten
feet round as the fiery Alleghenian was
slammed into his chair and held.therc by n
couple of husky retainers. That ended the
liot. . v
"Oil, Geoigc and I nre jus-t as good fiieuds
ns ever," said the ex-speaker vith a grin
the other day ns he iccnlled the incident,
"Only I hnd to let him know who was boss
of the shop that night."
OKNATOR KDW1X II. Jk'AUK the other
s? day gave a euiious instance not only of
the extent of his contracting operatious
hut the limit to which he inti lists his busi
ness, to his subordinates.
He took a- party of Philadelphia friends
sifioe jents ago to the dedication of the
Cominodoic Perry monument nt Put-in -Buy.
After the teiemony the paity, which was
also on n sightseeing jaunt, took n boat to
Sandusky, O., and thence by traiq to Toledo
en loute to Chicago, I think.
That night in Toledo from his hotel
window lie observe'd a string of red lanterns
stretching for squnies down one of the
streets; sine sin of excavations and street
work.
The following morning what was his sur
prise on looking out of the window to see
the entiie distance dotted with familiar tool
boxes each bearing the legend "Varc Bros.,
Philadelphia." The men were at work,
some hundreds of them, putting in telephone
f londuits for the local company.
fco implicit is his confidence m his suu
oidiuates, he told me. that he had for
gotten for the moment that his firm had
a contract of the kind in Toledo. Every
thing had been conducted by his subordi
nates, engineers, superintendents and elec
tiicians, and the work curried to completion
without nny but a foimal knowledge and in
tervention on his puit.
The Toledo job was only one of ninny
contracts on their hands in different sec
tion of the Knst. Anjhow, the work was in
elinrge of the familj. A brother-in-law is
the generalissimo always iu command.
As,
IXTl':m:STIX(J little Mory came In
me recently nnoul tlie Itev. George Wil
liam Lincoln, of St. John the Baptist
Church, (JermantovMi. It was when he ic
sided iuTlrooklju.
A joung 111:111 who' sang in his choir got
into trouble and wns threatened with ..Sing
Sing. The fact was the joung fellow, who
wns filling throe cIciicnL positions with one
of the big milk concerns for ?0 n week,
tlie salary of one job, sot to playing tlie
races in the foolish vhopc of Increasing his
income for he hud a wife nnd two children
and he defaulted.
The Reverend Lincoln wns asked to see
the judge and implore clemency, which he
did. He told of the innn's Jformer good
character ""and .other things to his credit.
"You've told me of his cood' nualltios.
i' now tell me of his bad ones," said the judge.
"rrnuKiy, men," replied the clergjmnn,
"he's a wreck from excessive use of cigar
ettes." "Huh ! I'd rather he drank whisky," wns
the brusnue comment. "Bring him to me
nnd we'll talk it over.''
The culprit and the rector appealed be
fore tlie judge in chambers. The hitler
read the guilty man n terrific lecture on
the cigarette hnbit nnd dismissed him under
a suspended sentence with the promise never
ngnin to touch a cigarette. And he kept
his word.
tr. Lincoln felt that a moral obligation
rested upon him, under the-clrcumstnuces,
for he too diked u cigarette on occasions'
and he dropped the 'habit after that inter
view with the judge.
But to this day the Itev. Georgo William
Lincoln delights in the enjoyment of a good
cigar.
WHHX Mayor Thomas B. Smith ictires
from office he will spend much of his time
on the farm he recently purchased up iu the
Pocouo mountains.
Tt isn't a big farm, the Mayor tells me.
Just n quiet little place of a few acres
"far from the madding crowd." where he
can take life easy after his strenuous
oflleiul clutter.
Mayor Smith really bought the little
Pocono furm ns n rest cure. Por ears he
has been a sufferer from an irritating throat
affection, and the clean, coo) ntniosphorc
of the. Pocono foothills acts almost ns a
specific.
Anyhow the country place Is just far
enough, away to get cleur of the city ulnios
phcrc, and near enough for him to run
down in his car in a couple of hours or so
nud attend tp business and get back homo
the same day.
, The Btnyrat-IIome has a lot to nusvvor
for in Milwaukee.'1
Wonder if Palmer, prestidigitaleur
ever has his fingers crossed? '
About tho only thing the United States
Senate can agree upon is a recess.
It would seem that a city treasurer can't
smell o. rat until a cat gets ou the payroll,
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THE CHAFFING DISH : 1 SUNRI$E' i 4
Only Two Days More
WILL the organ man please call? Our
wife bus dug up our old overcoat 'and
insists ou giving it to him. We intended to
give it to the Honolulu Girls mound .at the
Walnut, they looked a bit goose-lleshed hist
week, but we always have hay fever when
we get near those glass skirts. Grass widows
is what the piofession calls the Hawaiian
ladie. Hope the temperature isn't going up
again. We love the old-fnshiclicd Christmas
nnd all that sort of thing. Nipping un
makes cheeks pink; wo love to see them
nestled in fur coats on Chestnut street. This
is the time of year to do unexpected kind
nesses. We know one man who stands in
line for hours hi front of movie theatres just
in order to sliout Mcny Chriitmni through
the little hole ill the glass. Shnving seems
less nf a bore. Newspapers are supposed to
be heartless, but they all take a hand iu try
ing to help poor childicn. Kind ourselves
humming lijiira tunes. Very odd,, haven't
been to a church for years. Great fun sur
piis'uig people. Wc've,becn rending the new
phone book; noticed several wnjs iu wljch
people mi'jhl surprise each other by culling
up nud wishing many happv icturiis of the
d.iv. Why doesn't Beulah It. Wine njig up
Mrs. Louis V. Beer, for instance' Or. A. 1).
Smoker nud Burton J. Puffer might go
mound to W. ('. Motehett, tobacconist, at
KKS.-i South Second street, and buy their.
Clnistmas cigars. George Wharton( Pepper
might give Mnyme Salt a ring (on the phone,
that is). What a pleasant voice that tele
phone operatrlx has. Here's to you, child,
and many of them. Grand time, Christmas.
T7IINK
-P A time of jovial cheer and bracing mirth.
Must be so, because Or. Prank Criine nnd
Ralph Waldo Trine have often said so.
Christmas hard on people like Hint, how
ever: they nre bursting with the Christmas
spirit nil' the year round; very trjiug when
the rent occasion comes. That's the beauty
of having a peevish and surly disposition:
when one softens up nt Christmas everybody
notices it and is pleased. Chaucer, liili" old
Hiiglish poet, first Buglisli humorist, gave,
good picture ot Christmas cheer nioif, than
live hundred .venrn ago. Never quoted on
Christinas curds, why not copy it here?
Chaucer's spelling very like Ring Lnrdner's,
but good Sort just the same. Snjs he;
And tills was. an tblno booHes mo rcmcin.
)"e- . .
Tho ccltle, frosty sesoun of nccemhrc. . .
The bittro frostes with tho sleoL arftl rcyn
Destroyed liatli tlio greno In every yaril:
Janus sit by tlio fyr with -double beard,
And divpketh of Ids buglo born tlie wyn:
Hlforn liym stant brawn of tho tusked swyn,
And "iVoiod" crlcth every lusty man.
Janus, god of doors, what vvc call nowa
days a janitor. Had two faces so lie could
watch tho front and back door at once and
get a double tip at Christmas time. Also,
that was why ho wore a bca.nl; too much
trouble to shave. We don't cry Nuicjrl any
more; instead we petition the janitor to send
una Httlc more fteam. But what a jolly
picture Chaucer gives ot Christmas! Wine
to drink (fino ruddy wine, as red us tho holly
berries), a crackling flitch of pig to cat, nnd
a merry cry of welcome funding at the
threshold as jour friends come stamping in
through the snow
G
RAND lime, Christinas! No one is
waited for n Pino street car on n snowy
night. Plensp havo my sent, iiiudam, there's
plenty of room on tlio stinp. Wonder why
the pavement on Chestnut street ' the slip
periest in-the world? Always fall down just
in front of our bank; most cnibarraosing j
hope the paying teller doesn't see s. Very
annoying to loso our biilnnco Just there.
Awfully nice. little girl In. there who bnlauces
the books. Has u kind heurt. Tho count
less gold of a merry heart, as William Bioko
said. She looks awfully downcast when our
bulauce gets the way it is now. Hate to dis
appoint Kcr. Won't havo our book balanced
ugain for a devil of a while. Eveji the most
stirly is full of smiles nowadays. Most of
us when we fall ou tuo pavement tdld you
ever try It on Chestnut between Sixth and.
Soventlion k liniiry.'day?).curBi) tliu "terano- I
M'-S-'
1910:'
But not nowadays. Make the best of things.
Fine panorama of spats. -
ASSOCIATION of -'ideas. Hverybody
- wears silk stockings at Christinas time,
Excessive geniality of the' ad-writers. Up
roarious good cheer. Makes one almost
ashamed to notice, the high price of every
thing. Radicals being deported. Why not
depoit Santa .Clans too'., Very radical no
tion that, love your neighbor better than
j out-self. Easy to do; very few ot us such
dam fools us to love, ourselves, but so often
when you love your neighbor silo doesn't
leturn it. Nice little boxes they have at the
ten -cent stores, all covered with poinsettia
flowers, to put presents in. Wonder when
poinsettia began to be used ns a Christmas
decoration nnd why? Every ono in ten
cjnt store calls them poinslcttas, but named
after '.L R. Poinsett. Encyclopedia very
handy nt times; makes,' a good Christmas
present, one dollar down and a dollar a
month for life. Nobody can tell the differ-
cuce between real , pearls and imitation;
somebody ought to put the oysters wise.
Save them a lot of trouble and anxiety.
Uou't know just what duvetyne is, but there
seems to be a lot of it drunk nowadays.
Hope that clockwork train for the Urchin
will nvriv e soon ; wo were hoping to have
three happy evenings playing with it before
lip sees it. Pine to have children ; lots, of
fun playing with their presents. We nre
sure that Hfe after deajtii is realjy so, be
cause children always kick the blankets off
at night. Pine bit of symbolism that; pul
it in a sermon, unless Doctor Conweli gets
there first.
GRAND time, Christmas! We vowed to
try to take down our weight this win
ter, and then they put sugar back on the
menu, and doughnut shops spring up on
every stieet, nnd Charles F. Jenkins sent us
a big sack of Pocono buckwheat .Hour and
we're ealing n basketful of gridillc cakes
every morning for breakfast. Terrible to
bo a coward; we always turn on tho hot
water first in the shower bath, except the
first morning we used it. The plumber got
the indicator ou the wrong way round, ami
when jou turn to the plueo marked HOT it
comes down like ice. Our idea- of a really
happy man is the fellow driving n wagou
lond of truck just in front of a trolley car,
holding it'back oil the way downtown; when
he hears the mntoriijnn clanging away ha
pretends he thinks it's tho Christmas chimes
nnd sings "Hark the Herald Angels."
SPEAKING ot Herald angels reminds us
of u good story about James Gordon
Bennett ; we'll spring it ono of these days
when we're hard up for copy. Jack Frost
must be a married man, did you see him try
tocover up the show windows with his little
traceries the other day whim tho shopping
was at its height? There was a pert little
hat in a window on Walnut street we were
very much afraid spine one might see; the
frost snved us. Don't forget to put Red
Cross seuls on your letters. Delightful to
watch the faces on the streets at Christmas
time. Everybody trying hard to bo pleasant;
sometimes rather a strain. Curious things
fiices -some of thenr seem almost human ;
queer to think that euch belongs to some
ono nnd nocliuiico to get rid of it; sorry
we're not iu tho mirror industry; never
thought of it before, but it ought to be profit
able. Happier, most of us, if mirrors never
had been invented. Hopo all our ulcc
nutured clients will have tho best kind of a
time; forgive us for not ansvveriug letters;
wo are too disillusioned nbout ourself to
make any resolutions fo do better, We'ro
going home now; on the way we'll think of
n lot of nlco things we might have said,
writo them down and use. them tomorrow.
Don't miss tho special number of tho Dish
on Wednesday; we're going to stir in a little
of the Old Stuff for luck ; hero's how and give
it name. Hope Dor,othy GIsh will get
something nice iu her stocking. Dou't muke
the obvloils retort. Grand time," Christmas !
SOCRATES.
Wod)d it npt have been appropriate to
use .1 Terry's Pce Shin to take tWVt Red I
'Wmsff. -v: f' Mfvv
fIl NEVER the mast-high run of the sens
Of traffic shall hide thee,
Never the hell-coloicd smtdj- of the factories
Hide thee,
-ever tae leeu ot tlie time s fen-politics f,(l
Jiulc thee. i
And ever my heart through the night shall
with knowledge abide thee. . xi
And ever by day shall my spirit as onci-rf
tnat hath tried thee,
Labor at leisure in art till yonder bciide
thee y.,jl
.-uy soul snail lloat, lriend Suu,
The day being done.
Sidney Lanier.
AVe gather from Mr. Ogle's testimony
that while Attorney General Palmer thought
he was walking rough-shod lie wns really
pussyfooting.
Would it not be terrible if the Soviet ark
were to strike a mine in mill-Atlantic? Yes,,
indeed, it would bo too bad about the crew.'
Lane has' turned.
What Do You ilnoiv?
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QUIZ
I. What pioneering nviator has just died?
'J. What is to be the status of Danzig,
under the pence treaty?
". What is chalcedony?
4, Who was Dulcinca?
5. Name three noted comedies by Moliere.
ti. What kind of an animal is a cosset'?
' 7. Who owns Hongkong and where is it?
S! Who wns commander of the. British
forces whose retreat through Franco
was ended by the first buttle of the
v Mnrne?
II. WliOjt is an ad vuloiem tariff?
10. Who were the victors in tho Battle of
the iNiIc and wheu was it fought"?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
,1. Tho horse was unknown to tho American
ludinus bcfoic the ndvent of tho white. S.
man,
'J. Prcstigo should be accented on the last -;
syllable. The "s" may cither bo
sounded soft, giving a result some-
what like tho "z" .in seizure or it -
may have the harder sound of
"dg" ns in the word bridge. Tho "I" ,
of the final syllable has the sound of
an "e." t
3. The Doukhobors are a religious sect,
Mlh somo likeness in doctrine to the
Quakers. Large numbers' of J)ouk,
honors migrated from Russia to.
Canada -after persccutiou for refusing
military service, t
4. A duniwassal is a Scotch Highland '
gentleman of secondary rank. v
C. Four .notable novels left unfinished by
their authors nro Stevenson's "Weir
ofIlermiston," Thackeray's "Dennis
Duval," Hawthorne's "The Dplllvei
Romance" nud Dickens's "Edwin
Drood." '
0. The doublet, formerly worn by men, is -a
close fitting body garment, with or
without sleeves and short skirts.
7. Chrysoprase is thought to havo bceu n
golden-green variety of beryl. It Is
- qovv an apple-green variety of chalcQ
dony,
8. Porto Rico is the portion of American
territory which was tho first to bo
found by the white men. It was dlst
covored by Columbus in 1403.
Oi A coatee, is a short tailed coot, especially ,
a military coat.
10. "Deus ex machlna", Jltcrully means
"God out of the machine." The phraj ,
Is used to describe a power or event;
that comes in the nick of time to solvo
a difficulty, providential interposition '
esDcciullv in a novel or nifty. Th
V'cW iu "s
"macliHia" has la joyml
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